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MIM #56 {Die Cutting Partial Images}

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

This week's Make It Monday is a very cool technique for partial die cutting. It involves foam and chip board in order to selectively die cut only the portion you want. I don't have any foam and to be honest, I'm too lazy to do all of that. Like Elena, my first thought was I could stamp and image and just cut around the top portion and get the same effect. But while lying in bed I starting coming up with this design and I don't have the skills to hand cut around that scalloped oval. I decided to draw a line on my cardstock, line up my die, tape it on to the cardstock, and then carefully run only half of the die through my cuttlebug. Leigh cut hers the same way on her beautiful page. Then all I had to do was cut along the line to remove the rest of the cardstock around the die cut portion.

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Beautiful card. Love the colors. Very creative way of doing the partial cutting. I think I might try that as I don't have chipboard around and I really don't want to spend any extra money.Love how you layered the flower and the dies.

I'm glad to hear how many of us found alternatives to the foam and such-way too much trouble for me as well! I love the layering of the oval shapes with the pretty peony! Beautiful card as always, Kara!